You are right, Ripple fans can be very harsh, when called out for worshipping a dangerous centralized shitcoin. It's like a lot of denial is accumulated for Ripple fans because wo wants to support a centralized dangerous shitcoin like Ripple, which is also pushed by fake marketing strategies to take market capitalization away from BTC and ETH.
I would not consider someone who bought Ripple to care at all about the ideas behind Bitcoin or proper cryptocurrencies. Ripple is a dangerous centralized construct, that should never have been allowed to create. The blame is shared by many participants of this industry though. If you see, Coingecko and CMC have had it listed on the same ranking as Bitcoin since it was added. It is an insult to everything that Bitcoin stands for, and any business that participates in this fraud can never say that they support satoshi's vision or ideas behind decentralized blockchains. Money is not everything, you need to have some morals too.
Seems we've found another coin with a strong foundation after Bitcoin. I hope they maintain it for long and not give in to the government attacks on it.
Meanwhile Ripple isn't to be compared with Bitcoin, not ever.
Monero has been under government assault for years now, but there is no centralized entity to give in to the attacks. At best they can just scare some developers away and make buying Monero harder, but that won't stop it.
I'm happy that you understand that Ripple can't be compared to Bitcoin, many users don't.